cruisie

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1. ScotlandhistoricalAn oil-burning lamp.

   The cruisie lamps gave a dim, yellowish light but he could make out a prominent, slightly hooked nose and large dark eyes set into an oval face.

   1991, Lawrence Norfolk, Lemprière's Dictionary, Grove Press, published 1999, page 277

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   Besides the articles of plate which I have already noticed, the old man now lighted and placed on the table a silver lamp, or cruisie, as the Scottish term it […].

   1824, Walter Scott, Redgauntlet